balsam apple
Echinopepon
Echinopepon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cucurbitaceae, native to the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America, and South America. Tendrillate vines, their prickly fruits are operculate, with the prickles themselves being stipitate glandular.
19 branches of this genus, most-observed first
wild balsam apple
speciesEchinopepon wrightii
Peninsular Balsam-Apple
speciesEchinopepon minimus
Echinopepon insularis
speciesEchinopepon insularis
Echinopepon pubescens
speciesEchinopepon pubescens
Echinopepon racemosus
speciesEchinopepon racemosus
Echinopepon coulteri
speciesEchinopepon coulteri
Echinopepon milleflorus
speciesEchinopepon milleflorus
Echinopepon pringlei
speciesEchinopepon pringlei
Echinopepon cirrhopedunculatus
speciesEchinopepon cirrhopedunculatus
Echinopepon paniculatus
speciesEchinopepon paniculatus
Echinopepon disjunctus
speciesEchinopepon disjunctus
Echinopepon torquatus
speciesEchinopepon torquatus
Echinopepon calcitrapa
speciesEchinopepon calcitrapa
Echinopepon jaliscanus
speciesEchinopepon jaliscanus
Echinopepon longispinus
speciesEchinopepon longispinus
Echinopepon tultitlanapaensis
speciesEchinopepon tultitlanapaensis
Echinopepon rosei
speciesEchinopepon rosei
Echinopepon belizensis
speciesEchinopepon belizensis
Echinopepon arachoideus
speciesEchinopepon arachoideus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 157231.